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くび

neck

kubi

JLPT
N4
Frequency
#2,301

Meanings

  1. 1
    neckn
  2. 2
    headn
  3. 3
    dismissal (from a job); firing; sackingn

JMdict 1592270

In a sentence

くびneckいたい痛いhurts

My neck hurts

How it works

A bare, casual statement of a feeling. (subject) marks くび (neck) as the thing that hurts, and the adjective 痛いいたい (hurts) acts as the whole predicate — Japanese needs no "is". For body aches Japanese says "the neck hurts" with (subject), rather than "I hurt my neck".

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